I heard tell that Bart always wore a blue shirt on official Simpsons

>>89030644
the color blue is banned in china

It was mostly a deception thing. Fox were gambling that bootleggers wouldn't know that official merch was required to give him a blue shirt, thus if you saw any thing where he has an orange shirt, you'd know it was fake.

>>89030676
is that a smog joke

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>>89030644
Dang, I thought blue-shirt Bart was just some weird thing limited to the comics

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Not like it stopped them.

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Simpsons merch was everywhere in the early 90s.

>if we purposely make our official merch off-model this will make it easy to spot inferior bootlegs because they'll...look closer to the show...

Executives, everyone. This is why they make the big bucks.

>>89031433
To quote Dilbert, "The dumbest people in a company are always put in the place where they can do the least damage--management."

>>89031384
Wait a minute, why is she naked?

>>89030644
It's illegal to build sand castles in China.

>>89031012
But wouldn't that practically force people to buy bootleg toys when they want toys with Barts actual design? In other words, sounds like that'd be playing fight into the bootleggers hands.

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>>89031580
Because the doll in that pic is missing stuff.

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>>89031807
>>89031384
>doll was made with detachable clothes

>>89031506
Actually these days Dilbert is more like 'us poor managers have to deal with all of these incompetent boobs underneath us'

>>89031935
And...?

>>89032019
Is this a forced meme? Cause I'm looking at the last batch of comics and it doesn't seem to be the case.

There was also Green-shirt Bart and Purple-Shirt Bart from the early games.

>>89030644
Asian people can't see the colour blue.

>Simpsons fans bemoan the fate of the show as a neverending vessel foe money
>Continue to buy merchandise in droves despite the fact

Really gets my noggin a-joggin'.

>>89035161
Who the fuck still buys Simpsons merch in this day and age?

Lisa dakimakuras when?

>>89035210
Most of it is just based on nostalgia for Seasons 1-9 though.

>>89031935
The Simpsons had cast-off figures before anime

>>89033307
Opinions on the more recen black-shirt bart?